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After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

References for Esther 2:1

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And the king's servants attending him said, "Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king.

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Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the {harem}a in the citadel of Susa {under the care of}b Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give [them] their beauty treatment.

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Hei was raising Hadassah, that [is] Esther, his uncle's daughter,j for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman [had] a beautiful figure and [was] very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.

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And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa {under Hegai's care},k Esther was taken to the {king's palace}l {under the care of}m Hegai who was in charge of the women.

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{The young woman pleased him}n and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the {king's palace},o and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the {harem}.p

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When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--

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in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her {to take}s with her from the {harem}t to the {king's palace}.u

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In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the {second harem}v {under the care of}w Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.

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When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken [her] as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her.

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Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his {palace},x in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign.

References for Esther 2:20

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In those days Mordecai [was] sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired {to assassinate}| King Ahasuerus.